Constance Markievicz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.

  • It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

  • Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.

  • When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel.

  • Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.

  • Yes, well I do have plenty of clothes, jewels and money. However I don't ask for money for myself but if some one gives me money I take it and put it in The Eva Peron Foundation which gives huge amounts of money to the poor and helps to build hospitals , schools and old peoples' homes .

  • In my case dust has become Gold

  • Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.

  • On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

  • Gold is not necessary. I have no interest in gold. We'll build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off to a concentration. That's the bastion of money.

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